COT reports: Long positions held by money managers in wheat futures: WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Wheat futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), long positions held by money managers in wheat futures of the kind "WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE" stood at 65,090 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 66,643 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions attained a maximum of 86,146 contracts on 13 June 2017; they recorded a bottom of 12,029 on 14 October 2008; they were equal on average to 43,554.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 62541.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 66643.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 65090.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers in wheat futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: WHEAT-HRW - CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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